The rapidly increasing traffic demand from mobile users forces network operators and service providers to extend and optimize existing networks as well as to plan entirely new mo...
IEEE 802.11, the standard of wireless local area networks (WLANs), allows the coexistence of asynchronous and time-bounded traffic using the distributed coordination function (DCF)...
User authentication is essential in service-oriented communication networks to identify and reject any unauthorized network access. The state-of-the-art practice in securing wirele...
—Conventional wisdom about 802.11 WLANs dictates that as the number of active users increases, the contention windows (CW) of all the contending users needs to increase to preven...
Abstract— This paper presents an analytical model for evaluating the capability of wireless LANs (WLANs) to provision quantitative quality of service (QoS) guarantees. We conside...
Yu Cheng, Lin Cai, Xinhua Ling, Wei Song, Weihua Z...